No significantly increased frequency of the inversion polymorphism at the WBS-critical region 7q11.23 in German parents of patients with Williams-Beuren syndrome as compared to a population control

Molecular Cytogenetics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Frohnauer, Judith ^a   Caliebe, Almuth ^a   Gesk, Stefan ^a   Partsch, Carl Joachim ^b   Siebert, Reiner ^a   Pankau, Rainer ^c   Jenderny, Jutta ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b ENDOKRINOLOGIKUM HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c Heidekreis Klinikum GmbH   (Germany)

^d Labor Lademannbogen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTERPHASE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARENT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

EID: 78049397691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17558166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-8166-3-21     Document Type: Article

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